Metropolitan Governing.Metropolitan Governing Eran Razin & Patrick J. Smith, editors The University of Alberta Press The University of Alberta Press (UAP) is a publishing house and a division of the University of Alberta that engages in academic publishing. Overview UAP is situated in Ring House 2 on the University of Alberta campus, located in Edmonton, Alberta, and publishes an Ring House 2, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2EI 9789654932851, $34.95 www.uap.ualberta.ca Edited by Eran Razin (Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Hebrew University of Jerusalem Independent university in Jerusalem, Israel, founded in 1925. The foremost university in Israel, it attracts many Jewish students from abroad; Arab students also attend. ) and Patrick J. Smith (Professor at the Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser University Simon Fraser University, main campus at Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada; provincially supported; coeducational; chartered 1963, opened 1965. The Harbour Centre campus in downtown Vancouver opened in 1989. ), Metropolitan Governing: Canadian Cases, Comparative Lessons is an anthology of scholarly writings Scholarly writing is the genre of writing used in colleges and universities by students and professors to report and share knowledge. Characteristics It consists of certain conventions that can vary between disciplines, but always involves: n. 1. a. Political division of an area into partially autonomous regions. b. Advocacy of such a political system. 2. Loyalty to the interests of a particular region. 3. " territorial reforms versus "new regionalism" horizontal networks of governance; while old regionalism is best for effectively sharing fiscal burdens, new regionalism approaches can be notably more effective in development. Individual essays include "Urban Governance Reform in Toronto: A Preliminary Assessment of changes made in the late 1990s" and "Initiatives to Reform Metropolitan Government in Israel: A Sisyphean Task?" in this highly recommended collection for college political studies shelves. |
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